The KPPU is a state commission, a law enforcement agency on issues concerning business competition practices.

The Commission for the supervision of Business Competition (KPPU) is an independent authority established to supervise the implementation of the Law concerning the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition. Independent from the influence and control of the Government and other parties, the KPPU’s duties includes drafting implementing regulations, conducting examinations of any party alleged to have violated law No. 5/1999, issuing binding decisions, and imposing legal sanction(s) on any violator of the law.

The KPPU reports directly to the President and the People’s Representative assembly (DPR). The KPPU that was inaugurated on June 7, 2000 consists of eleven members – including – a chairman and a vice-chairman – whose appointments have been made with the approval of the DPR, with a five-year term of office.